Band 7 AWP Sequoia Senior Practitioner (MBT) - Bristol

Job overview

Sequoia provides evidence-based interventions for people with Complex Emotional Needs and Personality Difficulties across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We offer Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) informed groups, psych-education courses and peer support groups. All interventions are delivered both online and in person and staff work in a hybrid way, between home and locations within our communities, across BNSSG.

We are looking for someone who is either an MBT practitioner or someone who has completed some training in MBT. If you have practice experience but no formal training, then please contact us as we have the budget to train people further. We will build in time within your job to join an established MBT service and deliver full programme MBT as well as the shorter MBT informed intervention which we deliver within Sequoia.

We have good supervision structures and pride ourselves on being inclusive both in our team and for the people we serve. It is exciting to work in a newly developing service that is based on a test and learn approach and so we are looking for someone who is keen to help shape the service as it grows. We aim to deliver well organised services, so alongside your other skills we highly value people who are organised and have good attention to detail.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the oversight of MBT informed interventions; keeping an overview of triage referrals, support conversations (assessments) and post group reviews as well as, of course, running the groups. There is an existing programme of 14 sessions designed and ready to be delivered. You will be working alongside the Clinical Lead to fine tune and improve the MBT branch of the service including looking at feedback and data to identify changes which need to be made. You will be the ‘go-to’ person in the service for MBT and help with supporting staff working alongside you as well as those external to Sequoia. There will be an ongoing specialist MBT supervision available to you to help guide the development of this aspect of the service.

You will also be involved in other parts of the service outside of MBT and have the opportunity to help with the design, implementation and improvement of the service as a whole. You will be supporting the day to day running of a service with a large caseload of people with mild to moderate complex emotional needs, inclusive of personality disorders.
Whilst the focus of the service is delivering group interventions, you will also offer people support conversations (the new terminology for assessments). People have support conversations at the beginning of their journey with Sequoia, throughout if necessary and a review at the end.